#excuse

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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.


G. M. Trevelyan


#best #buck #coming #done #excuses

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?


Vera Nazarian


#excuse #excuses #holiday #north #northern

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.


Fran Lebowitz


#aspiring #being #excuse #football #good

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.


Charles Lederer


#existing #find #important #knowledge #learn

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.


Chris Rock


#excuse #get #high #i #i wish

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.


Julian Schnabel


#blaming #devastating #emptiness #excuse #facing

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.


Simon Greenleaf


#elsewhere #evidence #excused #give #hand

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.


Jupiter Hammon


#being #belongs #business #cannot #certainly

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


#excuse #only #serves #state #tyranny

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.


John Prescott


#excuse #explain #go #go home #had